Joint Declaration for a bold FP10: Investing in Research, Development and Innovation to boost European productivity and competitiveness

With 85 other European organisations, our association, EGVIAfor2Zero, urges European institutions to be bold in their investment decisions for research and innovation. The next framework programme for R&I, FP10, should be ambitious, well-funded, and focused on delivering the growth Europe needs.

Mario Draghi’s report called for 800 billion euros annually to close Europe’s competitiveness gap, with R&I at its core. Strengthening Pillar II will be essential to achieve Europe’s green and digital transitions, while preserving its open strategic autonomy and its social model. Reinforcing collaborative, industry-driven R&I can support reducing investment risk, accelerate technology maturity and translate research excellence into market-ready innovations that boost productivity.
This should go hand in hand with a strong support to the “Innovation-to-investment journey”, thanks to a strengthened coordination between FP10 and the European Competitiveness fund (ECF), both in terms of budget and governance.

We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Europe needs to build on previous Public-Private Partnerships to compete globally and sustain its prosperity.

Download the joint declaration here to read our call to the EU Institutions:

• Allocate a substantially increased budget to FP10
• Reinforce collaborative, industry-driven RD&I
• Ensure FP10, together with ECF support the full RD&I continuum